Population served: Undergraduate college of about 3,000 students
Library type: Academic library
Collection strengths: Humanities, education, sciences
Staff: 30 FTE & 5 .5 FTE
The goal of the Kairos College Wiki is to build a knowledge base among library staff for an impending migration to a integrated library system. The Wiki will provide space for uploading vendor documentation and staff created documents (videos and images as well) to assist in the migration process. There will be a core page for the migration and each department will have its own page with specialized information and documents related to its specific work. Ideally, departments will be able to comment and share knowledge and draw connections in preparation for the migration. The Wiki will also help track the timeline and progress towards the date of the migration.
Requirements of the Wiki:
- Free
- Ability to comment
- Email notifications
- Categories
- Link to other internal pages
- File attachments
- Embed calendar
- Unlimited storage
- Embed videos & images
- Full text search
Recommendations: GeniusWiki and DokuWiki
I like your Wiki idea, I think that staff portals or information repositories might be the best use of wikis by libraries. I don't think that many patrons would go to a library wiki for library information, since it would probably be redundant considering the library's web page. However, it could be extremely useful to have a place where staff members can all go to get important job related information. Nice job!
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